By Claire Booth
My final edits for Another Man’s
Ground have been turned in, and I’m now back to my work in progress – the third
Hank Worth mystery. With the holidays and some other writing projects, it’s
been a while since I’ve been able to work on it every day. I’ve popped in and
out, certainly, but the consistent daily work had to take a backseat for a
while.
It’s wonderful to be back. It
took me a couple of days this past week to get there, but I’m back in my
groove. I love the steady satisfaction of pages of text appearing on the
computer screen. The kick of creating something from nothing. And it gets
easier the more I do it.
It’s a lot like exercise. It’s
hard to drag your butt off the couch, but when you do it – and the more
consistently you do it – the better you feel. And your imagination needs a work
out just like any other part of your body or mind.
The revisions I’d been doing were
great (making everything better is always a good thing), but the first draft of
a novel is where my imagination really gets a workout. I’ve got a couple of
great new characters, including a real jerk. And I’ve got some existing
characters grappling with heavy-duty problems. I don’t know how I’m going to solve
them yet, or whether I’ll solve them at all. We’ll have to see where my
imagination leads me.
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